Supreme Court of India

Narayan Yadav v. State of Chhattisgarh

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Reported as [2025] 8 S.C.R. 568
Bench J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan JJ.
Decided 4 August 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the disclosure statement made by the appellant-accused (Exts.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court erred in passing the impugned judgment relying on the confessional FIR filed by the appellant-accused himself and the medical evidence to uphold his conviction, however, altering it from s.302, IPC to s.304 Part I. Headnotes† Evidence Act, 1872 – s.25 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 304 Part I – Confessional FIR, not admissible in evidence – Appellant-accused himself lodged FIR confessing the murder of the deceased in a drunken quarrel after the deceased allegedly made an obscene remark about the appellant’s girlfriend – Convicted u/s.302, IPC –

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